Description

Original acrylic painting, 24″ h x 36″ w on 0.75″ deep canvas (wood stretcher supports). Canvas is stretched around the edges and painting is continued around the sides.

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NOTES

I have done a number of abstract paintings where there is a large base pattern in the background and a finely detailed foreground pattern. As in many of my similar abstract paintings, the foreground details in “Heretical Musings…” relate to the background, but are not contained nor defined by the initial pattern behind them. They act more like comments; contrapuntal statements that connect and articulate the larger shapes behind them.

I often think of these abstract paintings as a kind of artistic envisioning of a heuristic. The background is the initial set of conditions and the finely detailed foreground is the complex evolving state.

My process in creating these pieces is also not completely deterministic. The background is created geometrically. In this case tape masking was used to create hard edged layers of defined geometry. The foreground is built on the background, but also articulates and works with the little “mistakes” vagaries and randomness introduced by the imperfect masking and painting process. The foreground is completed in fine detail and freehand style. The change in approach and style from foreground and background emphasizes the contrast between the “set” deterministic geometry in the background layers and the looser more responsive and unpredictable freehand figures in the final foreground layers.

The visual idea of tiny and sharply articulated things in front with more weakly colored graded larger geometries in the back is a familiar aesthetic for me. Many painters derive their visual intuition from years of looking out at nature and the landscape, etc. Those scenes have certain visual cues that denote depth and dimension.

I have spent a large number of hours looking at the world through various scopes and focusing optics (light and electron microscopes mostly). In these types of optics, the focal plane and the out-of-plane defocused images create a completely different type of aesthetic. The visual cues and logic of microscopy have become second nature and form the visual intuition that orders many of my abstract works.

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About The Nerdly Painter, Dr. Regina Valluzzi

Dr. Regina Valluzzi has an extensive scientific background in nanotechnology and biophysics. She explores abstract scientific concepts through complex
geometric paintings. Many of the subjects of her abstract drawings and paintings are taken from topics in Physics research. Soft Matter Physics and Biological Physics ideas are often seen, arising from Dr. Valluzzi's main area of research for many years. In addition to motifs and ideas drawn directly from molecular biology, biophysics, and nearby fields, her art often incorporates aspects of self-similarity, and elements from math and physics topics that have long held a fascination for her.

Her scientific accomplishments include over thirty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, several patents, an encyclopedia chapter as a subject matter expert, and invited talks in the US, Europe, and Japan. She has been a scientist in the chemical industry, a green chemistry researcher, a research professor in the engineering school at Tufts, a start-up founder engaged in technology commercialization, a start-up and commercialization consultant, and a science-themed artist.

Dr. Valluzzi has always held a strong interest in the visual arts and in visual information, allowing visual arts ideas to permeate her technical work and vice versa. She was educated in Materials Science at MIT, obtaining a second B.S. degree in music with a minor in visual studies. During her PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst she completed a thesis requiring advanced electron microscopy, image analysis, and theoretical data modeling. These experiences provided the visual insights and experiences that inform much of her work as an artist.